Google

Get Dr. Greenthumb's Sizzlean screen.

I use this site to watch TV series http://watchseries.ag/letters/A

Whenever I searched on google for

watch [name of series] online

That website came up as first search item....till yesterday and now it isnt listed in the first 3 pages (I didn't check further)
What has changed?

Probably banned by the guvment.

The other day my boss and I were checking eBay for some stuff to make it easier to work in the dark, we naturally got distracted by some kind of strap-on-esque headtorch thing and some weird green "night vision" goggles. I went home and on my Facebook app on my phone had sponsored ads for both things within the next 24 hours. I invasion the tracking comes from the fact he was signed into his work email on his PC and I have an account on the same domain signed in on my phone, still a bit weird and something I'm not used to as I cover my tracks online a small amount, at least enough to avoid most targeted ads. I'm just waiting for the moment he searches weird sex toys and I get ads for it.

I invasion the tracking

Good typo. :)

Not banned. I can access it, just down-graded by google

Autocorrelation but I like it.

Autocorrelation

Strangling by association.

Strangling by association.

is now

banned by the guvment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-acts-just-got-banned-in-uk-porn-9897174.html

wtf?

wtf?

It's not 'What t fuck', its 'How'
htf?

I hate censorship.

Yes, those prison hulks must have been horrible.

Google is now Alphabet

https://abc.xyz/

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/google-alphabet.html

How fixed-gear bikes can confuse Google’s self-driving cars:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/26/how-fixed-gear-bikes-can-confuse-googles-self-driving-cars/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/11/google-frames-shapes-and-distorts-how-we-see-world

Not sure if this is the right place, but does anyone know of an extension for Chrome for inserting template text into rich text boxes / emails? In the same was as there are clippings in firefox.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-location-tracking-android-iphone-mobile

Interesting stuff, thanks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/14/how-to-turn-off-google-location-tracking

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/11/google-home-assistant-listen-recordings-users-privacy

I still have absolutely no idea why anyone in their right mind would put something in their home that records their conversations.

Because spotify were giving them away, your Bluetooth speaker broke, and you wanted something to listen to music on and set timers in your kitchen?

I got one, it’s still sealed in its box. Thinking about it I may set it up in the garage for music purposes (WiFi connection out there is pretty ropey as well - bonus)

I still have absolutely no idea why anyone in their right mind would put something in their home that records their conversations.

This. All of this. I've worked on Alexa software. Would I own one? Would I fuck. Get out!

I still have absolutely no idea why anyone in their right mind would put something in their home that records their conversations.

I work in IT and partly specialise in networks/security/encryption/etc. I have one as it was a gift.

If I hadn't been given one I probably wouldn't have bought one. Not because of worries about security but more because I want less technology in my life rather than more. I don't want my toaster/kettle/fridge to require an IP address. However, it does come in useful; we use ours mostly as a radio (i.e. BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra) since the last radio we had in the kitchen died, for Spotify and for answering random questions.

On a technological level it's no worse than carrying a mobile phone. Those also have the capability to listen, record and forward it all to a third party and the transport mechanism is far more opaque than the various home assistants.

Do I care that a random person can hear endless clips of me saying "Alexa, play BBC Radio five live sports extra", "Alexa, stop" or "Alexa, play ambient relaxation playlist" ? No, absolutely not.
Do I ever say anything to it (after the watch word) that I wouldn't want anyone to be able to hear? No, absolutely not. It's not as if I ever say "Alexa, change my Natwest bank password for username arglebargle to catdog123"

Would I get rid of it if it was found that the device was exfiltrating raw speech that wasn't triggered by a keyword? Of course, but there's no evidence that this has ever happened.

(Yes, I know it sometimes triggers on some random phrases [especially given two of the names in our family], but I've checked in the app a few times this has happened and the text dervied from the speech has never contained anything I wouldn't talk about in public anyway.)

On the other end of the scale, there are some devices which are downright dangerous where the speech to text technology is badly implemented, or security is an after thought. I think it was some Samsung Smart TVs that had no speech-to-text technology within the TV itself and so it shipped a constant stream of the microphone to Samsung's servers to do the speech recognition. That's beyond awful as far as privacy is concerned as there is nothing you can do to prevent all of that being recorded, and it was effectively 24/7.

For the same reason I'm less trusting of devices from certain manufacturers if they're "smart". I've got a Samsung TV, but it's not a smart one and doesn't have any way of exfiltrating data (it doesn't have any data connection).

I certainly wouldn't have a Samsung or Huawei mobile phone for example. Phones have access to much more information (every website password you've entered into your phone, every keypress, every email, all of your contacts, your browsing history, health data, etc).

And, again, if you think that a home assistant could be recording things and exfiltrating data when it shouldn't because you can't trust the technology then you wouldn't ever have a smart phone.

The biggest worry with the home assistants, which I'll address when I redo the wiring and networking in my flat, is that the echo dot is on the same network as everything else in my flat, so it could be used as a launchpad for an attack if a vulnerability was found (or Amazon decided to be dicks). I should really move it to its own DMZ to partition it off from everything else.